Improvement in shirt buttons or studs



PATENT Erre GEOEGE E. Bonbon, OE PEovIDENoE, RHODE isLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRT BUTTONS on sTuDs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,946, dated July 16, 1872.

1 To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. BURDON, or

f v the city and county ot' Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and use- `ful Improvement in Shirt Buttons or Studs;

. posts. Fig. 3 represents the bolt and spring.

Innthe accompanying drawing, A and B, Fig. l, are two buttonplates. To each are soldered a short tube or hollowr post, these posts being made so one may slide within the other, are provided with one or more small holes through their sides for the purpose of fastening, as hereinafter described. C, Fig. 3, is a bolt, one end of which `is made beveling, and on the opposite end is attached a cross-bar. D is a sprin gfor operating the bolt C. Itisbentin the form of a staple. The two ends are slightly curved. Other forms might answer the same purpose, but I have preferred this, asit is simple, and may be used with two bolts when they are arranged opposite each other. The bolt C is iitted through the side hole ofthe post on B, as shown in section, Fig. 2; spring D pressin g against the cross-bar retains the bolt in its place. In the use of two bolts, spring D would operate equally as well against the cross-bars of each.

The side holes in the two posts are punched or drilled so that they may be turned in the same connecting relation to each other. By being so arranged the bolt C of the inner post on plate B may be sprung into any side hole of the outer post on plate A, thus locking the two parts together and securing the button or stud in the garment. The end of the bolt is so shaped as to remain in a side hole on the outer post, where it is free from any wear.

To remove the button, turn the top to the left, under a slight pressure, which will, by friction against the iiesh, retain the back from moving. The bolt is thus thrown inward by its bevel end, and slides from its side hole in the outer post, which releases the part-s so that the button heads :may be drawn apart.

I do not claim a button made in two parts; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States. is

The bolt C, in connection with spring D, and in combination with the hollow posts of A and B, when arranged to operate through side holes, substantially as described.

' GEO. R. BURDON.

Witnesses:

PETER F. HUGHES, CEAS. L. SPENCER. 

